unstructured: non-structured data is explained in two separate locations, for data stored on the disks and stored as objects respectively. The former is employed at runtime to store data on the disk, and the latter is used for long-term storage and data access from within the Web Interface.

Example structured and unstructured data

Unstructured data generated during calculation first resides on disk. Files containing the information can further be processed as explained in this section, and further converted to a structured JSON-based format inside our platform.

workflows: information about a computational Workflow routine used to extract the data.

other: any other information.

It is generally possible to disentangle the data about materials from that concerning the workflow that extracts the properties of such materials. The "Other" category exists for the limiting cases where such a distinction is problematic. Properties represent such a case, for example. Further sub-categorization for the Properties is explained here.

The data pertaining to each of Materials and Workflows can be related together though a Job.